The M23’s assault comes less than a year after the anti-government armed group seized control of Goma and Bukavu, two key provincial capitals in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been plagued by conflict for three decades.
The CIAA said the 55 individuals involved had inflated cost estimates by around $75 million, taking the approved cost of the project from $169 million to $244 million.
“I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar … I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!” Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.
Ayachi Hammami, a rights activist and staunch critic of President Kais Saied, was among some 40 Tunisian opposition figures sentenced last week up to 45 years for “conspiracy against state security” and “belonging to a terrorist group”
According to a security report prepared for the United Nations, armed groups known as “bandits” in northwest Nigeria kidnapped “at least 25 residents” in twin assaults on the villages of Unguwar Tsamiya and Dabawa in Kano state.
Elected in 2021, Bazoum, 65, has never resigned and with his wife Hadiza, 57, has been confined to a wing of the presidential palace where the junta leader behind his ouster also resides.
Trump took an interest in the war for the first time last week, vowing he would end it after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman urged him to get involved.
General Djibril Bassole’s daughter Yasmine, who was kidnapped in the capital along with her brother and a cousin in September 2024, was freed Monday night by masked men, family and friends told AFP.
The state police commissioner said the attackers were herders who had “shot sporadically” during the Monday night raid on the village of Isapa, which neighbours another village where 35 people were kidnapped just a week before.
Mwasilishaji wa ombi hilo, wakili Juan Carlos Gutierrez, anayewakilisha waathiriwa, anadai kwamba Rais Samia Suluhu Hassan, kama Amiri Jeshi Mkuu, anabeba jukumu la mwisho kwa madai hayo, akisema aliidhinisha moja kwa moja matumizi ya nguvu dhidi ya raia.
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